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All 13 Russians — along with the infamous troll farm they worked for and the companies that funded it — have been charged with defrauding the United States.
In a Friday afternoon bombshell, a DC grand jury convened by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller returned an indictment charging 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies with interfering in the 2016 US presidential election.
The indictment details how the accused allegedly used social media like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to attempt to disrupt and sow discord during the election.
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Evegny Prigozhin
Prigozhin, whose first name is spelled "Yevgeniy" in the indictment, has for years been seen as close to Russian Preside

A Polish far-right activist holds a Confederate flag and a Celtic Cross flag in 2015.
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A multi-national neo-Nazi music festival called a "Night of Identity" is being planned in Poland to coincide with Hitler's birthday in April, the news outlet Gazeta Wyborcza reported this week, with participation of bands from countries including the United States and Germany.The report comes as Poland is under fire from historians and Jewish organizations for a new law that criminalizes saying Poland has responsibility for the Holocaust. Lawmakers want Poland, which lost 6 million people during World War II, to be remembered as solely a victim of the Nazi troops that occupied the country. But some Poles were complicit in the deaths of some of the 3 mi...

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The special counsel's office announced a federal indictment against the Russian-based Internet Research Agency (IRA), two other Russian entities, and 13 Russian individuals Friday in relation with the their actions of "interfering with the US political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016."The special counsel's office, which is investigating Russian interference in the election, provided the following statement:
A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment on Feb. 16, 2018, against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities accused of violating U.S. criminal laws in order to interfere with U.S. elections and political processes. The indictment charges all of the defendants wi...

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NAIROBI — In the span of 24 hours, three African countries saw their political landscapes completely upended: Ethiopia was shocked by the resignation of its prime minister, Zimbabwe lost its most well-known opposition leader, and South African MPs selected a new president after his predecessor was forced out of office.BuzzFeed News spoke with human rights officials and political analysts about what these significant changes mean for each country moving forward.
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Hailemariam Desalegn
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In a hugely surprising move, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced Thursday that he was resigning from the position that he has held for the past...

The cat has been giving zero fucks about whether commuters are late for a meeting since at least 2015.
Hello. Istanbul is well known for its many stray cats.
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Although she has been spotted elsewhere:
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But it seems like the cat's a longtime resident. Here she is, doing her thing, back in 2015:
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The US Embassy in Havana.
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US diplomats in Cuba who, in 2016, reported hearing loss, fogginess, and vertigo after hearing chirping sounds, suffered from concussion symptoms with no known cause, a new medical report concluded.Last August, the first public reports of the injuries sparked fears of a sonic weapon attack in Havana. The long-awaited JAMA case report on 21 of the 24 affected diplomats by University of Pennsylvania researchers only rules out sonic attacks as an explanation for their symptoms — and finds scant evidence of brain damage in MRI images reported in early news accounts of the outbreak.“If you didn’t know their history, they would look to you like other concussion patients,” the study’s lead author, R...

Google and Facebook, owners of YouTube and Instagram respectively, have found themselves in the middle of a fight over transparency in Russia thanks to opposition leader Alexei Nalvany.
Two US tech giants are facing questions about whether they're willing to host content deemed embarrassing to the Kremlin, after being ordered by a Russian court to do just that.
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has found a growing audience for his well-produced videos, where he breaks down investigations into corruption among the ruling class. Those videos are hosted on YouTube.
A video posted last week drew particular attention for its discovery of Instagram posts from a woman who claimed to work...

Years after Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war ended, there are still thousands of families waiting to learn the fate of people who went missing.
As people around the world celebrated Valentine's Day on Wednesday, a group of women in Sri Lanka instead came together to remember their family members and other loved ones who have been missing for years.
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Sri Lanka's civil war — between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil separatists in the north and east of the island — has been officially over since a ceasefire in 2009. But the reconciliation process has been slow.
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An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 people died during the struggle betw

OK, so remember the Aussie politician who threatened to kill Amber Heard and Johnny Depp's dogs Pistol and Boo because the celebrity couple didn't declare the Yorkshire Terriers at customs?
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That was our deputy prime minister, Barnaby Joyce.In hindsight, the Pistol and Boo biosecurity snafu was just the beginning of his problems, and has been subsequently eclipsed by further drama in his professional and private life.Bear with me.
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In August last year Joyce became the fifth Australian politician to be drawn into a citizenship omnishambles that dragged on for months.Joyce, 50, was confirmed as a New Zealand citizen, hours after an...

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Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced an overhaul of the ministerial standards, including a ban on ministers having sex with their staff, regardless of whether they are married or not."I don't care if they are married or single; they must not have sexual relations with their staff," Turnbull said in a press conference on Thursday.The prime minister took deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce to task over his widely publicised affair with his former staffer, Vikki Campion, and said Joyce's actions had hurt Campion, as well as Joyce's estranged wife Natalie and their four daughters."He has set off a world of woe for those women and appalled all of us," he said. "Our hearts go out to them. It has been a dreadful thing for them to go throug...

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